<d:Bio>Amit Chopra is a Senior Program Manager with the Visual Studio Test and Lab Team which is responsible for creating the Visual Studio 2010 Test Professional Product and the Lab Management Features. Amit has spent over 10 year in the Developer Division working on variety of IDE Features targeted towards Office Developers, Windows Phone Developers and most recently on features aimed to enhance Developer / Test collaboration in teams that are using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server as the core ALM Platform. Prior to working for Microsoft, Amit has worked for companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sun Microsystem, CANON and DEC in various capacities in the engineering and developer evangelism groups.</d:Bio>

In this post, I will show you how to analyze Windows and Windows Phone Store apps crash dumps available on the developer portal, especially when you get nothing but an empty callstack in the excel file. Thanks a lot to Rudy Huyn who gave me some of his...

This is the second part of the article, you can find the first one here : Strategies for sharing XAML code in Universal Apps (1/2) We will see different options to get UI and functionnal platform specificities while sharing some XAML at the same...

[Version FR disponible ici ] Thanks to the universal apps, we can now share much more than PCLs between applications targeting different platforms. In Visual Studio, a universal solution is composed of at least 3 projects : one for Windows Store, one...

On Windows 8.1 and WinRT, Wifi-direct enables wireless direct communication scenarios between devices executing the same application . That means you can exchange data between peers in areas without any internet network connectivity. All you need is a...

Did you know that you don’t need any NFC-capable device to develop againt the Near-Field Proximity API ? You can install a sample driver ( Near-Field Proximity Sample Driver (UMDF Version 1) ) that will emulate the hardware layer for you with a TCP connection...